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Quotes about Dancing


For you and I are past our dancing days.

William Shakespeare

To many a youth and many a maid
Dancing in the chequer'd shade.

John Milton

A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.

John Dryden

Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

William Cowper

She was our queen, our rose, our star;
And then she danced--O Heaven, her dancing!

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Marcus Aurelius

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

John Barrington Wain

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Arnold Bax

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

Elvis Costello

Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew; And whom the curious painter doth pursue Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks, And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.

William Wordsworth

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

Paul A. Volcker

Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail, We saw a snow-white butterfly Dancing before the fitful gale, Far out at sea.

Richard Hengist Horne

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

William Wordsworth

O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

Thomas Haynes Bayly

My dancing days are done.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more At their speed behold advancing Modern men and women dancing; Step and dress alike express Above, below from heel to toe, Male and female awkwardness. Without a hoop, without a ruffle, One eternal jig and shuffle, Where's the air and where's the gait? Where's the feather in the hat? Where the frizzed toupee? and where Oh! where's the powder for the hair?

Catherine M. Fanshawe

And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

Heinrich Heine

Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.

Heinrich Heine

Dancing in the chequer'd shade.

John Milton

...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

T.s. Eliot

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Lyn Karol

Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.

Paul Hamilton Hayne

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Marcus Aurelius Antonius

The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms—but all these charms are fled. - Deserted Village, The.

Oliver Goldsmith

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